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Getting Really Fed Up With English Grammar by panafrican(m): 6:48pm On Sep 16, 2018
Every day or everyday, ?

Traveling or travelling ?

Travelled or traveled ?

Some time or sometimes, ?

Any time or anything ?

Every time or everytime ?

Traveller or traveler ?

Too much BS.
I prefer a Bantu language right now
grin



Anytime vs. Any Time. A century ago, it was standard to write any time as two words in all contexts. But it's now perfectly acceptable to write anytime as one word when you're using it as an adverb. ... Anytime is an adverb that means “whenever” or “at any time.”
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Everytime should be written as two separate words: every time. While some compound words like everywhere, everyday, and everyone have become commonplace in the English language, everytime is not considered an acceptable compound word.
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The Difference Between Travelling and Traveling
Travelling and traveling are both verbs, obviously. To travel is to go from one place to another, as on a trip or journey. For example,

travelled or traveled definition: how to spell travellingIt was already too late; he knew they wouldn’t be travelling far. –The New Yorker
When the traveling pub is taken off a trailer and put together in a lot near Milwaukee and California avenues, it will boast 400 feet of bar space. –Chicago Sun Times
They travelled 5,000 miles from Myanmar to place a plaque in Seagrim’s native village of Whissonsett in eastern England. –Washington Post
Under that analysis, completion of the mobility plan would result in about 35 million miles per day being traveled on L.A. surface streets in 2035. –L.A. Times
Summary – Traveling vs. Travelling
Is it traveling or travelling? That depends on where you are writing and who is your audience.

Travelling is the preferred spelling in British English.

Traveling is the preferred spelling in American English.
Whether you’re talking about travelled or traveled or traveller or traveler, these same preferences still apply


WTF !!!! can there be only one form of English ? Can the Americans and the British agree ? grin
Re: Getting Really Fed Up With English Grammar by Alejoc(m): 6:51pm On Sep 16, 2018
You are not alone grin

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Re: Getting Really Fed Up With English Grammar by BonkoINC: 6:56pm On Sep 16, 2018
As long as one can communicate and understand each other well.. I don't mind the English you are speaking to me correct or incorrect.

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Re: Getting Really Fed Up With English Grammar by TobiAbuja: 9:34pm On Sep 16, 2018
We need to stick to one or the other in Nigeria. It gets confusing because we all choose one or the other.
Re: Getting Really Fed Up With English Grammar by vaxx: 9:42am On Sep 17, 2018
My journey within some west African state indicate Hausa can work as our lingual franca in our region ....

Yoruba also show some progress too but not as Hausa.

Igbo did not do better that much apart from Nigeria.

In Nigeria here, we should adopt pidgin or peherps we can have three multiple official language which we be basically Yoruba, Hausa and igbo at least to suppress this eurocentric social order.

It seems our government simply pretend Nigeria pidgin doesn’t exist and English is the only official language in the country.

I am always disappointed seeing Nigeria lawmaker deliberating on Nigeria most important issue in a colonial language.

A Chinese man once said that if you want to colonize a man forever , teach him your language.

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